Pelerine

Quick meaning: Pelerine is a noun meaning A kind of short cape or covering for the shoulders, associated especially with medieval pilgrims (of any gender).

Meaning

A kind of short cape or covering for the shoulders, associated especially with medieval pilgrims (of any gender).

More Meanings

1. A woman's tippet or cape with long ends coming down in front.

Example Sentences

[…] Around his shoulders, he wore a thick gray pelerine. This was the custom of the knights of the Kingdom of the Spears, the land of the beaches and the chalk cliffs with great castles[…]

Beneath the pale light crouched an ancient white-haited man, wrapped against the rain in a threadbare maroon pelerine. “Alms, sire,” he croaked, his eyes wide and fearful, his face lean and hungry. He was so thin […]

Pilgrims, male or female, wore gowns […] A hood was usually added, but even if that were omitted, the pilgrim wore a shoulder-cape, a custom so universal that this type of cape came to be called a "pelerine," a name still used in the nineteenth century to describe the short capes fashionable in women's dress.

Word Forms

• pelerines

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include capelet, pellegrina, pelisse, epaulette, tippet, palatine.

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